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* Competition is helping AI learn how to play ‘Sonic the Hedgehog’ >>
* Russia launches the world’s first floating nuclear power plant >>
* ASX details timeline, features for new blockchain-inspired system >>

* Scientists create noise-cancelling windows that can reduce sounds by up to 50% >>
* Our understanding of the universe’s expansion is really wrong >>
* Astronomers See A Pileup Of 14 Separate Galaxies In The Early Universe >>

* Researchers Want To Use AI To ‘Predict’ When Crimes Are Gang-Related >>
* Google brings Nvidia’s Tesla V100 GPUs to its cloud >>
* Fitbit will use Google Cloud to make its data available to doctors >>

* How some resistant bacteria can even eat antibiotics as food >>
* A fossil may rewrite the story of how plants first lived on land >>

* Scientists are on the brink of creating an elephant-mammoth hybrid >>
* Laser frequency combs may be the future of Wi-Fi >>
* AMD is gearing up for 7-nanometer CPUs and graphics cards >>

* Facebook expands the roll-out of its Reddit-style downvote tool to flag inappropriate comments >>
* Hyperloop One and DP World launch a cargo-only shipping business >>
* And now, a ship that can mine 39,000 tons of ore from a mile under water >>

* This Robot Will Keep Your Grandparents Company When You’re Too Busy >>
* More Brits have access to 1Gbps speeds than those failing to muster 10Mbps – Ofcom report >>
* T-Mobile and Sprint want you to be scared of China. Fear for yourself instead. >>

* T-Mobile and Sprint will merge to be a stronger 5G force >>
* AI Can Help Cybersecurity—If It Can Fight Through the Hype >>

* NASA’s $1 Billion Mission To Jupiter May End This Summer — Here Are The Best Images Juno Has Taken Of The Giant Planet So Far >>
* Monitoring culture that is China >>
* Ten million British jobs could be gone in 15 years. No one knows what happens next >>

* Everything coming to Netflix, Amazon Prime, and HBO Now in May >>
* Avengers: Infinity War has pulled in $250 million for the biggest US opening to date >>
* The future, the reality Operating System, an enabled landscape >>

* Welcome to China’s wild, wild world of blockchain investment >>
* Will Tesla face the same fate in China as Uber and Amazon in local rivals’ home turf? >>
* Xi calls for maintaining new development philosophy, winning “three tough battles” >>
* HPV vaccine becomes available in China for women between 16 to 26 years old >>

* Three radical new user interfaces >>
* Increasingly clear future will be containerized and containers will run on serverless infrastructure >>
* Blue Origin will livestream its first test flight of 2018 >>

* Mars 2020 lander’s heat shield cracks in testing >>
* You may soon be able to control your home with a smart wall >>
* Video Friday: Cassie on Fire, Disney’s Soft Robot Hand, and Car Humanoid >>

* Want to work for Ikea? Your next job interview could be conducted by a Russian robot >>
* Phased Arrays Move From Academic Curiosity to Industrial Reality >>
* I Tried Leaving Facebook. I Couldn’t >>

* Avengers: Infinity War is stunning, hilarious, and heartbreaking >>
* What to watch this weekend after Avengers: Infinity War >>
* Catch up on the Marvel Cinematic Universe in 17 minutes before Avengers: Infinity War >>

* Why the tech industry should care about the farm bill being drafted right now >>
* Facebook Messenger ‘sleep mode’ locks your kids out at bedtime >>
* UK smart missile will decide where to look for its next target >>

* This AI-powered chatbot scores your Instagram photos on color, emotion, and more >>
* The device that lets you read emails and texts with your SKIN >>
* Bill Gates Just Announced a $12 Million Contest for a Universal Flu Vaccine >>

* Google might be able to do useful quantum chemistry with 100 qubits and they already have 72 >>
* China will start first new AP1000 nuclear reactor later this year and four by 2019 >>
* China Electric Car makers want competition with Tesla like Apple made smartphones better >>

* Robot that can 3D-print a house in just 48 hours could someday help create a colony on the MOON >>
* AI Business value is $1.2 trillion in 2018 and will be $3.9 trillion in 2022 >>
* US is not buying regular cars so Ford will stop making them and shift to more SUV, trucks, SUV and new electric vehicles >>

* US is not buying regular cars so Ford will shift to more SUV, trucks, SUV and new electric vehicles >>
* What we can learn from the new detailed map of 1.3 billion stars >>
* GitLab crawling back online after breaking its brain in two >>

* How the Dynamic Learning Project sparks a love of technology in schools >>
* Windows 10 Timeline: How to use use Microsoft’s new organizational tool >>
* Yawn: Amazon cloud business just keeps rolling along >>

* When Solving Problems, Think About What You Could Do, Not What You Should Do >>
* SpaceX price hikes will make ISS cargo missions more costly >>

* Intel delays its 10-nanometer ‘Cannon Lake’ CPUs yet again >>
* Amazon will install a full smart home security system for you >>
* PSA: Amazon Will Increase Price of Prime To $119 >>

* The Smartphone Sales Slowdown is Real >>
* China’s smartphone market sees its largest drop in five years >>
* Birth of the AI supersoldier: hi-tech system to help troops on the battlefield analyse information far more quickly >>

* 5G wireless revolution will come, if your city council doesn’t block it first >>
* Your Amazon Echo could soon have its own ‘memory’ >>
* MoviePass CEO is unsure if it will offer a movie-per-day plan again >>

* Bill Gates thinks a coming disease could kill 30 million people within 6 months — and says we should prepare for it like war >>
* Scientists Discover How to Harness the Power of Quantum Spookiness by Entangling Clouds of Atoms >>
* China’s Baidu turns to AI to police online content, but is the technology reliable? >>

* Someday, every piece of a person will be replaceable >>
* If you grow a brain in a lab, will it have a mind of its own? >>
* Scientists literally brought out the big gun to study the origins of water >>

* Building tools for the AI applications of tomorrow >>
* Turning An Echo Into A Spy Device Only Took Some Clever Coding >>
* Some Startups Use Fake Data to Train AI >>

* Teaching and implementing data science and AI in the enterprise >>
* Toward the Jet Age of machine learning >>

* Turning deep-learning AI loose on software development >>
* Robot port in China to unload shipping containers without humans >>
* China plans to build a manned ‘lunar palace’ powered by the sun to explore the moon and act as a launchpad for missions to Mars >>

* CRISPR pioneer wants to make an at-home test that detects disease >>
* Amazon is now selling home security services, including installations and no monthly fees >>
* What Happens When Your Bomb-Defusing Robot Becomes a Weapon >>

* How to Accelerate the Adoption of Digital Health Technology >>
* Volvo aims for half of its sales to be fully electric by 2025 >>
* Google Cloud Platform announces new credits program for researchers >>

* First Mars round-trip announced in hope for discovery of alien life >>
* Scientists plan huge European AI hub to compete with US >>
* Use the built-in Amazon SageMaker Random Cut Forest algorithm for anomaly detection >>

* U.S. Spy Agencies Seek Tech to Identify Deadly Chemicals From 30 Meters Away >>
* The Price Of This Essential Mineral Could Skyrocket >>
* The Growing Impact of AI on Business >>

* Bridged nucleic acids in CRISPR RNAs improves CRISPR gene therapy accuracy by 10,000 times >>
* By 2025 Asia could pass South America on per person income >>
* Can US geopolitics and military interventions become more cost effective? >>

* For the first time, parents will be able to limit YouTube Kids to human-reviewed channels and recommendations >>
* Human Brain Gain: Computer Models Hint at Why We Bested Neandertals >>
* New A.I. application can write its own code >>

* This 3D Color Map of 1.7 Billion Stars in the Milky Way Is the Best Ever Made >>
* Laser Blasts Simulate Crushing Pressure in a Super-Earth’s Core >>
* We’ll Never Know For Sure How Everything Began >>

* Mozilla Hubs is a super-simple social chat room for robots >>
* High-Paying Trade Jobs Sit Empty, While High School Grads Line Up For University >>
* Workers of Silicon Valley, It’s Time to Organize – The New York Times >>

* Rolls-Royce mulls European move as Brexit deal worries grow >>
* What A Vertical Carousel-shaped Airport For La Would Look Like >>
* LG celebrates record profits by making its biggest ever acquisition >>

* Skydiving stealth speedboat: Video shows US Special Forces parachuting a top secret boat >>
* Horses remember if you smiled or frowned when they last saw you >>
* Flesh-eating velociraptors killed their prey with a powerful bite rather than razor sharp claws >>

* The AI DOG: Researchers train neural network to think and behave like a canine >>
* Wireless pacemaker would jolt hearts with tiny chips >>
* Stoner app lets cannabis users keep track of how high they are >>

* Google Cloud expands its bet on managed database services >>
* Scientists Use Graphene to Compress Light Smaller than Should Be Possible >>
* SpaceX BFR will be taking people anywhere on Earth in 30 minutes for a few thousand dollars by 2028 >>

* Particle brings an LTE cellular model to market for networked devices working off of 2G and 3G >>
* Astronomers spot a massive collision 12.4 billion light years away that may have created a MEGA-GALAXY >>

* Software transformation for the rest of us: Check out the lineup of talks at our devops conference >>
* Continuous Lifecycle London 2018 >>
* 8K TVs are coming, but don’t buy the hype >>

* You’ve got to use your time much more wisely if you want to stay employed >>
* Generation robot: From science fiction to reality >>
* How AI Anxiety Is Creating More Jobs For Humans >>

* Machines flagged most of the 8 million videos deleted from YouTube late last year >>
* How Fukushima Changed Japanese Robotics and Woke Up the Industry >>
* Google uses its search skills to help fight opioid addiction >>

* China and Japan together develop aerotrain running 400 to 500 kilometers per >>
* Touch-sensitive wall might let you control home devices in the future >>

* Clouds are complicated, and these fabulous 3D renderings of real weather data prove it >>
* Doomsday AI will cause a nuclear war by 2040 that could DESTROY humanity >>
* Physicists gain control over transitions between different states of matter >>

* Accidents Show Smart Cars Need Wide Vision to Spot Cyclists >>
* Japan’s Rent-a-Family Industry >>
* For thousands of years, humans slept in two shifts. Should we do it again? >>

* Can Amazon Build a Home Robot That Is Useful and Affordable? >>
* Proposed hybrid F-22 /F-35 fighter could make a big fast plane with better electronics >>
* DeepBench to democratize access to expert networks >>

* Scientists use CT scanner designed for rocket motors to image an entire WHALE >>
* Building AI systems that make fair decisions >>
* Super-cockroach invasion in China, AI is helping breed 6 BILLION of the insects each year to use in medicine >>

* This Ice Is Nearly As Hot As the Sun. Scientists Have Now Made It on Earth. >>
* If We’re Searching For Earth 2.0, Would We Know It When We Find It? >>
* Darkness Instrument Will Block Stars And Reveal Their Planets. 100 Million Times Fainter Than The Star >>

* Blue Origin Expects BE-4 Rocket Engine Qualification Tests to Be Done This Year >>
* Totally Different DNA Structure Identified –“It’s DNA, But Not as We Know It” >>
* Nuclear tsunami would have less energy and die out before getting far inland >>

* Augmented-reality system lets doctors see medical images projected on patients’ skin >>
* Geo-Spacial Intelligence symposium for 2018 >>
* This animal kills more people in a day than sharks do in a century >>

* AI Trained on Images from Cosmological Simulations Surprisingly Successful at Classifying Real Galaxies in Hubble Images >>
* Even Microsoft’s lost interest in Windows Phone: Skype and Yammer apps killed >>
* More Than 1 Million Kids Had Their Identities Stolen in 2017 >>

* This Virtual Model of a Human Brain Has Short-Term Memory >>
* Research reveals the true danger of smartphone overuse >>
* War veteran gets world’s first penis and scrotum transplant >>

* Amazon in talks to acquire Evine in home shopping TV move >>
* Mysterious new form of DNA seen inside human cells for the first time looks like a ‘twisted knot’ instead of a double helix >>
* New research shows how algorithms on popular platforms like Instagram may discriminate against women >>

* S9 successor? Leaked images reveal next smartphone could be DOUBLE the size of the iPhone X >>
* Bank run by ROBOTS: Humanoids welcome customers at the world’s first person-less branch in China >>
* Amazon begins delivering packages directly to customers’ CARS across the US >>

* AI Could Start A Nuclear War. But Only If We Let AI Start A Nuclear War >>
* The future of war will be fought by machines, but will humans still be in charge? >>
* Avengers: Infinity War is stunning, hilarious, and heartbreaking >>

* Quantum Blockchains Could Act Like Time Machines >>
* Amazon Vesta 2019 home robot can follow you around help with housework >>
* Canary’s cameras get person-detecting AI improvements >>

* Johns Hopkins performs the first total penis and scrotum transplant >>
* MIT Researchers Developed a ‘System For Dream Control’ >>
* Your AI pet project is only as smart as its garbage training set >>

* Finger-prick test reveals fetus’s sex in the first trimester >>
* AI beats astronomers in predicting survivability of exoplanets >>
* Amazon’s new blockchain service competes with similar products from Oracle and IBM >>

* The future of farming is moving indoors. Here’s why >>
* How robots are reshaping one of the dirtiest, most dangerous jobs >>
* AI is discovering new alloys faster than humans ever could >>

* Alexa and the Age of Casual Rudeness >>
* Can you pass IBM’s test for entry-level roles? >>
* Australia tries to reign in corruption on A$50 billion submarine purchase >>

* CBS All Access arrives in Canada to kick off international expansion efforts >>
* Glowforge opens public orders for its desktop 3D laser cutter >>
* Google Assistant’s routines are an easy way to automate your home >>

* The future of e-commerce in India increasingly looks like an all-American affair >>
* How this AI platform is taking over the business world >>
* Microsoft looks to bots to make employees more productive >>

* Get ready for robo-builder: Japanese firm unveils mechanical workers to replace humans >>
* Robots will outnumber humans by 2048: Droid population to grow from 57 million to 9.4 billion in 30 years >>

* Why robots could replace teachers as soon as 2027 >>
* Robots Can Swim, Fetch, Lift, and Dance. But Can They Assemble an Ikea Chair? >>
* Demo: How to edit professional beauty images with GIMP on Linux >>

* Samsung is making six TV series just for VR >>
* How Windmills as Wide as Jumbo Jets Are Making Clean Energy Mainstream >>
* AI: How far are we from artificial “general” intelligence, really? >>

* Duchess of Cambridge gives birth to boy >>
* How line of succession to British throne has changed with new royal baby boy >>

* Behind the scenes at Alexa’s laboratory >>
* Amazon is reportedly working on its first home robot >>
* Amazon is reportedly working on a home robot >>
* Amazon’s got a ‘top secret’ plan to put robots in your home by 2019, report >>